GeneDavis

I think you have another case of a plan drawn in 2D by someone who didn't use 3D to generate elevations, thus you may have something you cannot replicate in Chief.

Gotta wait for Chief. This, and more, has been suggested as needed stair tool additions.

I've a simple one floor house and have truss-framed the roof, and now want a six-truss run, 10 feet in length, to all be attic trusses so we can have a platform deck on which to mount HVAC equipment. The depth of the bottom chord for the rebuild is unknown but it's certainly not 3.5". Do I just draw my "room" with invisible attic walls and guess the floor structure at, say, 7.25"? And the rebuild the affected trusses?

I did not download, but have a q. "glass panel, with 1/2" lites" Do you mean 1/2" muntins?

This presumes you need us to look at something in the building. Copy it, then strip the copy of all that is not stuctural. Remove terrain, fixtures, furniture, clean off any weird textures you may have applied, the file is to contain no plants, no people, no nothing but walls, floors, roofs, windows and doors.

I hope I stated this so as to be understood. I need a larger scale for some details I want to do, and having a default set for 1" = 1'-0", went ahead and wrote a new default set for 1 1/2". I had already created a text style for this new scale. I'll need to write the appropriate specs for rich text, arrows, callouts, and the rest, but for now I am starting with text. See here that my newly created text style appears in the lineup. Now see here, in this screencap of the default set dialog, I cannot see the text style in the dropdown, and thus cannot assign it to this default set. What am I missing?

Pretty long discussion for a Home Designer 2026 issue.

I made a house with enough roof area to do what I wanted, then manually cut a hole in the roof and built the dormer walls connected to interior walls so as to have it be a "room" with a ceiling and roof over, then used a different wall type to draw the three balcony walls, and manually adjusted their shapes. It's a mess, but it's a start. You can use the window tool, pass-through type, to make the scuppers. If you can shape windows into a trapezoid, you can shape pass-throughs. I think the glass and metal railings will need to be modeled manually using whatever you like. Solids would be my choice. Others might use cabinets.

Did you see this? https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5202/creating-floor-platforms-that-hang-inside-walls.html?playlist=144 Try building with a 4-1/2" thickness mudsill and then editing it to a 3-stack after your framing is all the way you want it.

Why three? Is it to get your wall finish closer to grade?

Raise the larger roof plane 10 inches? Those rafters likely bear on a plate atop the floor frame.

X17 Help describes its operation and shows the tool.

You know that CTRL+ALT bends an arrow, right? Click its arrowhead end, hold the two keys, and move curser around. Play with it. Might be useful for you.

OK I figured out what's up with this. The appliance from Chief's library is placed in the cabinet's center, in plan view. Most call this "dropping it in." Done that way, there is no issue with placing it in a 24" wide base. Here is what Chief does to the 3D appliance, so be aware. The product has a total height of its front equal to 15 7/8", so if your opening height is that number, the oven will be put into the cab with its correct height. But Chief will put it into a 13" high opening, and also a 17" high opening, shrinking it on its Z axis or stretching it to fit the hole.

Hey @steve_stuart, to paraphrase the Bee Gee's song, "How deep is your cab?" Actually, give us ALL your cab specs. Framed or frameless, separation, width of cab, height of cab, depth, run from top to bottom of front to give us the top separation, the opening height, the separation under the MW, and the reveals for each of those two separations. I cannot get it into and opening if I make the opening the size of a garage.